Tigers 6 Blue Jays 1 Another great start from Max Scherzer. He went 4.2 scoreless innings, 2 hits, 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. He threw 65 pitches. It looks like he’s already ready for the regular season. Two start and no earned runs against. Other pitchers: Batters, starters: Others: Jays are 8-11 on the spring. […]
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Sorry this was scheduled to go up and it didn’t. The Jays play the Tigers today, in Dunedin. Tarik Skubal and Max Scherzer are the starting pitchers I’m putting this together Friday Night, so I don’t have the starting lineup. Also Puerto Rico is playing Italy at 3:00 Eastern. Seth Lugo starts for PR. Sam […]
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We have two quarter final WBC games today. 6:30 PM: Korea vs. Dominican Republic Hyun Jim Ryu, who you might remember, starts for Korea. Cristopher Sánchez for DR. Vlad is in the cleanup spot. 8:00 PM: USA vs. Canada. Logan Webb starts for the US. Mike Soroka for Canada.
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Twins 1 Blue Jays 6 A win. Cody Ponce had troubles finding the strike zone, but he didn’t give up a run. He gave up 4 walks and 2 hits, with 2 strikeouts. He came out of the game with 2 out in the second inning and then came back in to get the first […]
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I guess we’ve found out why José Berríos wasn’t allowed to pitch in the WBC. The team is saying he’s heading to Texas to talk to Dr. Keith Meister about ‘right elbow inflammation. We hadn’t been told that there was an issue. He was scratched from his start against the Phillies. This is one of […]
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The Jays are playing the Phillies today. The game is free on MLB tv. I don’t see that it is on Sportsnet. Lineups: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS PHILLIES George Springer – DH Trea Turner – SS Davis Schneider – LF Brandon Marsh – RF Tyler Heineman – C Alec Bohm – 1B Daulton Varsho – […]
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Trey Yesavage is a 22-year-old, right-handed pitcher. He was our first round draft pick (20th overall) in 2024. Trey got a $4,177,500 signing bonus (I’m trying to figure out how many beers I can get at the club at happy hour with 4.2 million, but let’s just say a lot. Of course, I would have […]
2 days ago | 1 read
Blue Jays 1 Yankees 8 That didn’t go well. Eric Lauer didn’t have a good time of it. He went 3.1 allowing 4 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts, a home run, and 4 earned. His spring ERA is 8.64. I know spring doesn’t really matter for him, he’s going to make the team, but it […]
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Jays @ Yankees is starting now. Lineups: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS YANKEES Myles Straw – CF Trent Grisham – CF Nathan Lukes – DH Randal Grichuk – LF Jesus Sanchez – RF Cody Bellinger – 1B Eloy Jimenez – LF Giancarlo Stanton – DH Brandon Valenzuela – C Jazz Chisholm – 2B Rafael Lantigua – […]
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Canada plays Cuba this afternoon. Both teams are 2-1. Cal Quantrill starts for Canada (showing my age, I typed Paul at first). Livan Moinelo starts for Cuba. Canada needs the win to go on to the next round, and Cuba would go home. If Cuba wins they go on to the next round, with Puerto […]
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Daulton Varsho is a 29-year-old, left handed hitting, center fielder. The Jays picked him up in a trade with the Diamondbacks, in December 2022, for Lourdes Gurriel and Gabriel Moreno when they were trying to remake the team. I don’t know that we were extremely excited about the trade. Daulton didn’t have the best year […]
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I’m putting the open thread up today, because the Jays don’t play until the evening and there is nothing pressing as far as Jays news. I have a couple of things I want to write about, but they will take awhile. Jose Berrios wanted to play for Puerto Rico but can’t because of insurance issues. […]
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There are three games tonight:
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Braves 0 Blue Jays 7 Nice to see the Jays score some. Early in spring we didn’t seem to be able to score. Dylan Cease was really good. 3 innings, 2 hits, and 3 strikeouts. Reached 97.5 mph on the fastball. Other pitchers: Offense, Starters: Others: The Jays are 7-8 on the spring now. Tomorrow […]
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After an off-day, the Jays are back at it, hosting the Braves. I’m putting this together Monday night, so I don’t have the lineups. But the Jays have Dylan Cease making his second spring start. I’d guess they would want 3-4 innings out of him. The Braves are starting JR Ritchie, who pitched in the […]
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There are six WBC games today, which is nice because there are no Blue Jays games. The games: I think the Mexico/USA game is the one I’m most interested it.
5 days ago | 2 reads
Louis Varland is a 28-year-old, right-handed reliever. He was a 15th round draft pick by the Twins, in 2019. Louis has one option year left. He will likely be arbitration eligible after this season (Super 2) and he would be free agent eligible after the 2030 season. He could be a Blue Jay for a […]
5 days ago | 2 reads
Two games, two wins. Blue Jays 1 Orioles 0 Cody Ponce had a nice time against the Orioles today. He threw 3 no-hit innings, no walks with 1 strikeout. I was impressed. Other pitchers: Hitters, starters: Others: Tigers 0 Blue Jays 5 Kevin Gausman looked good too. 3.1 innings, 3 hits and 3 strikeouts. Hitters, […]
6 days ago | 1 read
The Jays play two games today. Both starting at 1:00 Eastern which….well I don’t know what time that is in various places in Canada since the clocks have changed in at least some of Canada. So where ever you are in Canada, there are two game today (or two games a week from Thursday depending […]
6 days ago | 2 reads
There are a whole mess of WBC. One game is already finished, Japan beat Australia 4-3. That seems way to close for a game between Japan and Australia. Australia walked 12 batters but only gave up 5 hits with a Masataka Yoshida home run being one of them. Kazuma Okamoto was 0 for 2 with […]
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Jays 1 Phillies 0 The best part of this one was that Max Scherzer started and threw 4 no-hit innings, allowing just 1 walk with 1 strikeouts. He was helped out by some defensive play, but he got through the four innings on just 40 pitches (29 strikeouts). Max was terrific. I didn’t think he’d […]
7 days ago | 2 reads
The Jays make the short drive to Clearwater to play the Phillies. We get out first look Max Scherzer this spring. He says he’ll be ready for opening day. I didn’t expect that he would be in the rotation to start the season. I think the odds of him being able to give us 30 […]
7 days ago | 3 reads
There are a mess of WBC games today. I’m out in the morning, but I’m hoping to be back to watch at least some of the Columbia/Canada game
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Brandon Valenzuela is a 25-year-old switch-hitting catcher born in Hermosillo, Mexico (he has a good role model as a Mexican-born catcher in Kirk). The Blue Jays picked him up from the Padres in trade for Will Wagner. MLB.com has Valenzuela as #24 on their Jays top 30 prospect list. He was added to the Jays’ […]
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Pirates 2 Blue Jays 9 Not that it really matters, but it is nice to have a win. José Berríos wasn’t great but only allowed 2 earned, with 5 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts and a home run. His ERA is now 3.38 on the spring. Normally, I’d say his spring training numbers don’t matter, […]
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